Search - Ai Otsuka :: Love Jam

Very edgy Punk-Pop

Steven Guy | Croydon, South Australia | 03/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No Western pop singing female artist would or could ever release an album like this. For starters, it covers too many bases - from songs accompanied by an orchestra and grand piano to outright Punk rock à la Shonen Knife/The Ramones and then onto modern Electronica (which is the style I prefer).



Ai Otsuka has a sweet clear voice and she does sing with quite a lot of style and a very agreeable sense of phrasing. Otsuka-san does NOT go in for the irritating, pointless and aimless vocalisations of the current crop of American pop stars (like Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Christine Aguilera) and she contents herself to sing her songs simply and with expression.



Perhaps if Ai Otsuka sang in English or was an American she'd be a major star? Maybe not. She isn't caught up in the dreary pop clichés tediously exhibited the current crop of musically jejune Western female pop artists."

A Talented Singer

Respublika Byelarus' | 07/22/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I believe Ai Otsuka is a very talented singer. This only her second album, but she has already gained great fame in Japan. If you like J-Pop, I highly recommend you listen to Ai Otsuka. I also recommend her first album Love Punch."

Great Artist

Diane R. Jackson | Butler, PA, USA | 07/20/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is her second album and the second one I have (I also have LOVE COOK... still looking for LOVE PUNCH). If you like J-pop, you'll probably like her, but the previous reviwer is sort of right. Her voice was on the border line between cute and annoying for me for the first songs I heard from her. But now I just think it's cute. If you want mature and calming you shouldn't buy the album (well, if that's ALL you want, that is.) but track 04 [Daisuki da yo], 05 [Sensu], 08 [futatsu boshi kinenbi], 09 [Kingyo Hanabi] and 11 [Furenzu] are quite calming... I suppose it depends on what your tastes are... and your level of hearing... kinda like that girl on cowboy bebop who thought Heavy Metal was very calming, but no I wasn't being sarcastic. If you don't like J-Pop though, she probably won't change your mind."